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MP attacks 'merger most foul'

A MP has vowed to stop plans to create a super-district, labelling it a ‘merger most foul’.

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By Dan Peters | 15 November 2017

A MP has vowed to stop plans to create a super-district, labelling it a ‘merger most foul'.

Conservative MP for Bridgwater and West Somerset, Ian Liddell-Grainger, told the House of Commons yesterday he was ‘absolutely determined' to stop the merger of Taunton Deane BC and West Somerset DC.

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